7501From George Washington to Gouverneur Morris, 13 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have before me your letters of the 28th of December 1792.—6th &10th of Jany & 14th of Feby 1793. To do any thing more at present than acknowledge the receipt of these letters, and thank you most cordially for the information—& opinions contained in them is out my power (especially as notice of the opportunity is short); for you will readily believe, my dear Sir, that, what with the current...
7502John Stagg, Jr., to Tobias Lear, 13 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of War requests, that you will please to submit the enclosed letter, from the Governor of Maryland dated 6th instant —and the dispatches from James Seagrove of the 24th ultimo, to the President of the United States —They have just come to hand. Your’s respectfully ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Thomas Sim Lee’s letter to Henry Knox of 6 June 1793, which GW received later on this...
7503From George Washington to the Cabinet, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
As you are about to meet on other business, it is my desire that you would take the enclosed application into consideration. It is not my wish, on one hand, to throw unnecessary obstacles in the way of gratifying the wishes of the applicants. On the other it is incumbent on me to proceed with regularity. Would not the granting a Patent then, which I believe is always the concluding act, &...
7504Cabinet Opinion on the Polly (Republican) and the Catherine, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President having required the opinions of the heads of the three departments on a letter from Governor Clinton of the 9th inst. stating that he had taken possession of the sloop Polly, now called the Republican, which was arming, equipping & manning by French & other citizens to cruize against some of the belligerent powers, and desiring to know what further was to be done, and they having...
7505Certificate for William Jackson, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I do by these presents certify, that, Major William Jackson has served in the Armies of America to the Southward, in the War between this Country & Great Britain—and (although his situation was too remote from mine for me to speak with decision of his conduct from personal observation⟨)⟩—yet I have no reason to doubt his having acted with distinguished reputation as an Officer. In Autumn of...
7506To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to submit to the President his answer to mister Genet on the subject of the French debt. he had prepared it yesterday morning, but unluckily left it at home, which has delayed it a day. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. Jefferson’s letter to Edmond Genet of 11 June explained...
7507To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 12 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor of inclosing to the President the opinion on the two cases of vessels referred to the Heads of the department, and the letter he has prepared in consequence to the Attorney of the district. Genl Knox will wait on him with his letter to the Governor. Symmes’s case is to be considered of tomorrow, as it required some enquiry. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters;...
7508To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 11 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury presents his respects to the President, sends him for consideration, two letters on the subject of a proper site for a Custom House, on the New York side of Lake Champlain. The Secretary will have the honor of waiting on the President in a day or two to submit whatever further may occur & take his orders. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed letters to Hamilton from Stephen...
7509Tobias Lear to Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States sends to the Secretary of State a letter & enclosures which he has just received from the Governor of New York, respecting the detention of an Armed vessel which was about to sail from New York, supposed to be commissioned as a privateer by one of the European belligerent Powers. The President wishes the Secretary of State to lay these documents before the...
7510To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 11 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a memorial from mister Hammond. he proposes to ask a meeting with the Secretaries of the treasury & war at 9. oclock tomorrow, in time to write by the post of tomorrow. should the President think fit that the inclosed should be the subject of deliberation, it may be considered at the same time. AL , DNA : RG 59, Miscellaneous Letters; LB...
7511Henry Knox to Tobias Lear, 11 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Please to submit to the President of the United States, two Letters from Govr Blount—one of the 12th and the other of the 15th May—the last letters were of the 28. April. And please also to submit an old letter of Colonel Pickering, enclosing a message purporting to be from the hostile Indians. I am Sir Yours sincerely LS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . William Blount’s letters, written at Knoxville...
7512To George Washington from Edmund Randolph, 11 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
On my arrival at Baltimore, Colo. S. Smith gave me a very early and easy opportunity of conversing with him on the subject of his letter to Colo. Hamilton. He repeated the same alarm, as still existing in the breasts of the merchants; adding, however, a confidence in the executive, as being better qualified to judge, from a comprehensive view of our situation. My explanations were apparently...
7513Tobias Lear to Thomas Janney, 10 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Colo. Lowrey informs me that you are possessed of a horse which he had recommended, previous to your owning him, to be purchased by the President; & that you are willing to part with him for one hundred & twenty five pounds. Altho’ this price far exceeds what the President had an idea of giving for him, yet as he is desirous of obtaining a good covering horse to put on his Estate at Mount...
7514From George Washington to Frances Bassett Washington, 10 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Your Aunt has lately received a letter from you, to which an answer was given about a week ago. As this answer, so far as it respected the renting of the estate in Berkley, of which you are possessed, was dictated by me, in a hurry, I will now give you my ideas more at large on that subject; although they will still appear, from my immersion in other business, to carry with them strong marks...
7515To George Washington from George Clinton, 9 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Having received Information last evening from Thomas Randall Esquire Master Warden of this Port and through other Channels, that a sloop was equipped, armed and manned in this Harbor and ready to sail, and that there were reasons to suspect that she was intended to act as a Privateer under a Commission from one of the Belligerent Powers of Europe, I, in consequence of your request signified to...
7516From George Washington to Anthony Whitting, 9 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
In due course of Post I have received you letters of the 31st of May & 5th instant; and was equally surprized & concerned to find by the last, that your health was in the declining, & precarious State you describe it to be because you had not given the least intimation thereof in any other letter, since my departure from Mount Vernon. I can only repeat now, what I have often done before, that...
7517To George Washington from Alexander Hamilton, 8 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to send you a report on the communication from the Minister plenipotentiary of France respecting the reimbursement of the residue of the Debt of the United States to that Country, altered in conformity to your desire; and to be with perfect respect &c. LB , DLC:GW . The enclosed report of 8 June reads: “The Secretary of the Treasury to whom was referred as Communication from...
7518To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 8 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson has the honor to inclose to the President a letter from our bankers, at Amsterdam stating a balance due them on the foreign intercourse fund Apr. 2. of 13,225 florins equal to about 5,300 Dollars. this being communicated for the information of the President, the following explanation is necessary. independent of the fund on which this balance appears, the bankers had in their...
7519To George Washington from Arthur St. Clair, 8 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
You will probably be surprised to see a Letter from me of this date from this place —The Delay I have met with in this Country has distressed me extremly but it has been unavoidable; for I have been at the very point of Death: and now I am so far recovered only as to be barely able to ride but still too weak to walk more than a few Yards at a time, nevertheless, I am on my way to Pittsburgh to...
7520From George Washington to William Thornton, 8 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The President of the United States is much obliged by Doctr Thornton’s polite attentions, and prays him to accept his thanks for the Treatise on the Elements of written language. The President is sorry to hear of the Doctors indisposition. A speedy and perfect recovery is wished. AL , DLC : William Thornton Papers. Thornton’s Cadmus, or A Treatise on the Elements of Written Language...
7521To George Washington from Henry Knox, 7 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have the honor to submit to your consideration, the draft of a letter to M. General Wayne, together with copies of two former letters of the 20th of April and the 17th of May, which collectively will give a general view of his orders for the present campaign. I have the honor to be sir with perfect respect Your humble Servant ALS , DLC:GW ; LB , DLC:GW . Gen. Anthony Wayne was currently in...
7522To George Washington from Edward Newenham, 7 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I fear our Letters have lateraly been capturd, or lost, as I have not had the Honour of a Letter from you these 3 months; I sent you all our Irish Papers by the Eliza (bound to New york) from the 8th of March to the 22d of may, which I hope you recived, as I collected them with the greatest Care, that you Should Know Every opinion, reports & Circumstances of the Present war. your Excellency...
7523To George Washington from Robert Donald, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Will your Exellancy Permitt a fourty years agoe Aquentance to Sollicate your notice of the bearer Mr Jas D. Smith (my Nephew) who has been for some years an Inhabitant of your Province, and who I belive Intends removeing to your City of Washington, where under your Paternage I flatter myself he may push his way in your Riseing States, much better then I was able after a Seventeen years...
7524From George Washington to Alexander Hamilton, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Upon a mature consideration of your communication to me of the 3d instant, recommending a still further Loan in Holland, if obtainable, to the amount of 3,000,000 florins—and stating, that in case the recommendation should meet my ideas, my special approbation thereof would be proper, I have thought it necessary, in order to make the subject clear to my mind before any steps are taken in it,...
7525To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
I cannot but think that to decline the propositions of mister Genet on the subject of our debt, without assigning any reasons at all, would have a very dry and unpleasant aspect indeed. we are then to examine what are our good reasons for the refusal, which of them may be spoken out, & which may not. 1. want of confidence in the continuance of the present form of government, and consequently,...
7526To George Washington from Veritas, 6 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
AT this momentous crisis of our public affairs, when solemn treaties and the sacred rights of American citizens seem to be openly violated, it were treason against the dearest interests of America not to warn her first magistrate to shut his ears against the whispers of servile adulation, and to listen to the solemn admonitions of patriotic truth. Let not, I beseech you, the opiate of...
7527Cabinet Opinion on Sending an Agent to the Choctaws, 1–5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
That an Agent be sent to the Choctaw nation to endeavor secretly to engage them to support the Chickasaws in their present war with the Creeks, giving them for that purpose arms and ammunition sufficient: and that it be kept in view that if we settle our differences amicably with the Creeks, we at the same time mediate effectually the peace of the Chickasaws & Choctaws, so as to rescue the...
7528From George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
The Secretary of the Treasury left the enclosed to day (without my seeing him) and is to call to morrow morning to know how it is approved, or what alterations to make. Whether to assign, or not to assign reasons for non-complying with the French Ministers proposals in one question—and the footing on which to decline doing it another—I wish you to consider these & if it is not convenient for...
7529To George Washington from Thomas Jefferson, 5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Th: Jefferson with his respects to the President has the honor to enclose him the answer to his note of yesterday. Should any article of it need explanation, he will be at the orders of the President for that purpose to do it either verbally or in writing. LB , DNA : RG 59, George Washington’s Correspondence with His Secretaries of State. For the enclosure, see below. Later on this date, GW...
7530Enclosure Thomas Jefferson’s First Opinion on a New Foreign Loan, 5 June 1793 (Washington Papers)
Instructions having been given to borrow 2. millions of florins in Holland, & the Secretary of the Treasury proposing to open a further loan of 3. millions of florins, which he says “a comprehensive view of the affairs of the U.S. in various relations, appears to him to recommend,” the President is pleased to ask Whether I see any objections to the proposition? The power to borrow money is...